💿 Optical disk
💿 Emoji meaning
CD, music, movies, information, nostalgia.
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💿 Meaning
For a long time, the CD was considered the most common way to store data and play music and movies. Almost replaced by the streaming technology. Symbolically, it stands for the availability of a huge amount of information.
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Commonly confused with
Color Variant
Floppy disk vs optical disk; both legacy storage icons, technology difference is often ignored.
Same Shape
Optical disk vs DVD; both shiny discs, text label difference (CD vs DVD) is not obvious.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Optical disk” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0 in 2021 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title before
optical disc
Emoji title after
optical disk
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In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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